OakTree

ROSCOE/RASCO

Family History & DNA Study

GOALS

Because Lancashire has had the largest concentration of Roscoes in England over the centuries, our study is seeking to obtain tests in Lancashire and elsewhere for each genetically different Roscoe line that can be identified, and is making substantial progress.  A new Roscoe tester can immediately match his own family Y-DNA Profile against the profiles of --

1.  A British citizen born in Bolton, Lancashire (now processing), whose Roscoe family traces back to TIMOTHY ROSCOE, born 1817 Kearsley, Lancashire (possibly descended from THOMAS ROSCOE, b. ca. 1560, Prestwich, Lancashire?),

2.  A British citizen whose Roscoe father and grandfather were born in Blackpool, Lancashire (now processing - possible confirming match for Bolton Roscoe?),

3.  An Illinois Roscoe reportedly tracing back to WILLIAM RUSCOE, born 1594 County Essex, England, who sailed to Boston with his family on the famous ship Increase in 1635 and founded the New England / New York line of Ruscoes, (possibly tracing back to John Rouscoue, alien, taxed 1545 in Essex, possible Huguenot refugee?) (now processing),

4.  A Pennsylvania Roscoe, son of an immigrant Rosko from Slovakia in Austria-Hungary ca. 1900 (now processing) (possible deep-match for the Northampton, Virginia line of) 

5.  Revolutionary War CAPT. WILLIAM RASCO of North Carolina, whose haplogroup I2a Balkan-source line (already verified) has matched back to Rascoe lines from Bertie, North Carolina, and Northampton, Virginia, and may have descended from the Roscoe family of Leigh, Lancashire, in the 1670's,

All other Roscoe lines are also cordially invited to test and participate, and will be identified as the study information develops.  If you don't yet know which line your Roscoe comes down from, our group's principal researcher James Ray Rasco has an enormous database of Roscoe information, and there is a good chance he can identify your line if you send us an email. 
 
Some black families named Rasco are found in various places in the south, including Bertie Co., NC.  These Rasco/Roscoe males may be genetic descendants of white Rasco families, or their families may have taken the name of their former owners.
 
For source material on the Rasco family line information included above and below, see the detailed discussion in William Earl Rasco's 486-page book, THE RASCO FAMILY TREE ROOTS AND BRANCHES, Knoxville, TN, 1994, with information collected by James Ray Rasco and others.